He reveals all in the exclusive premiere of his new animated short. Spoiler: He brushes his teeth with his chains on.
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Tyler, The Creator has an imagination that's probably unparalleled by most people in this world, so it only makes sense that some of his most intimate confessions are best portrayed in a cartoon.
Having already brought some of his ideas and characters to life on his Adult Swim show, Loiter Squad, the Odd Future ringleader now gets a little personal, teaming up with Fox's Animation Domination High-Def unit to create a short called "5 Things You Don't Know About Me."
“5 Things You Didn't Know About Tyler, The Creator”
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When he's not making music, organizing carnivals, designing clothes, or keeping busy with any of the other many, many projects he's involved in, Tyler can be found hanging in the offices of Nick Weidenfeld, head of Fox ADHD and executive producer of Loiter Squad.
One particular hangout session yielded an idea for an animated short, after Tyler revealed he wears his chains while brushing his teeth. "[Tyler's] somebody who will tell you interesting things or just say interesting things and you wanna be recording it," says Weidenfeld. "We were just talking about shorts and I was like, 'Oh, let's go in the booth and just tell me five other things you wouldn't know about… or let's just talk about all the other things you wouldn't know about yourself."
What resulted is a hilarious list of confessions that made for a perfect backdrop to an animated short. "He just sort of talks like that all the time and no one ever really records it," says Weidenfeld. "But it also feels like it's animatable because he's also giving you very visual things."
Ten to 15 minutes of Tyler's riffing was edited down and then animated and brought to life by Henry The Worst, who makes daily animated news GIFs for ADHD, and is Tumblr-famous for his drawings.
"This guy is such an amazing [artist], like all the long legs and all the long arms, it's a very specific thing that he does," explains Weidenfeld. "And it's weird, slightly surreal…kind of like Tyler, I think. And it worked really, really well."
